Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragon Ball episodes

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. –Llama man^talk_contribs 00:40, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dragon Ball episodes[edit]

Hello.

It looks like a few episodes of Dragon Ball have been turned into articles. I don't think we can warrant having all an individual article for each episode, especially when we already have episodes lists and saga articles. I'd like to delete or redirect these. Beowulph 22:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this even a legitimate AFD as none of the articles have been tagged? Ok well, I guess I can fix that. The only problem I actually see with these articles, except for "Secret of The Dragon Balls" is that they do not conform to WP:NOT#IINFO point about plot summaries without real-world context. Normally, I'm in favor of this being merged into a list, where such context can exists. But there aren't any policies or guidelines against episode articles so long as the real-world context and sourced analyst is provided. "Secret of The Dragon Balls" is the only one I see that provides such context. However, let me also state that having per episode articles for such a long running series is not a good idea. --Farix (Talk) 16:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While I thought this wasn't a real AFD since the articles weren't tagged... now they are. I have to say that throwing all of these into a list together is unwise and I'm going to have to suppose I have to say keep because the secret of the dragon balls episode and because of its real world context. For the other articles... merge? I dunno, absolutely not delete. MrMacMan 18:27, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I don't think these story arc led series really need articles on each seperate episode as they don't really stand on their own as part of the series, let alone in a more general context, the series's storyline is better defined in it's main article or a more general plot summary spinoff article (and Dragonball already seems to have seperate articles for each "saga" already). FredOrAlive 00:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Since other TV shows have individual episode articles, why shouldn't Dragon Ball? JuJube 10:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Whether there are other TV series that have episode articles is irrelevant. My view is that this is better handled by List of Dragon Ball episodes instead of individual articles. The "Saga" articles should be likewise merged because of WP:NOT#IINFO issues. In fact, I see that the Emperor Pilaf Saga is already ready to be merged so I'll probably do that in a short while. --Farix (Talk) 20:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The fact other shows have episode articles is completely relevant. If there are story arcs, then combine the articles into indiviudal story arc articles. 23skidoo 22:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- Notable television series, episode is inherently notable. Consensus is episode articles are perfectly legitimate and encyclopaedic. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 14:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:EPISODE. There is a consensus to improve, and not delete, articles on individual episodes. - Peregrine Fisher 18:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.